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liner France arrives, NYC; illus; gets harbor welcome
US sets up new command in Saigon, called US Mil Assistance Command, Vietnam, to be headed by Gen Harkins; move linked to orgn reasons and US determination to prevent Communist take-over; command will include present Mil Assistance Advisory group under Lt Gen McGarr; US forces in S Vietnam put at 2,000-4,000 men considered 'not in combat,'
8 killed, hundreds hurt, Paris, as Leftists demonstrating against SAO clash with security forces; illus; map; terrorists retaliate with bombs
HR com rejects Repub disapproval resolution, reptdly 17-8; Wagner, Seattle Repub Mayor Clinton support of plan during hearing noted
R M Nixon says Khrushchev has big temper but uses it instead of losing it, TV int
1962Anik Bissonnette, Canadian ballerina[†]
Anik Bissonnette is a Canadian ballet dancer. She began her professional ballet career with the Ballet de Montreal Eddy Toussaint in the 1980s and became a principal dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1990.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]